Dru

nappy dugout time more like

w00t

Not exactly, at the first snow patch it climbs up and then traverses parallel to but higher than the line you have drawn on the next ramp system up the face over to the arete and finishes via the line you have drawn.

Hmm but lytton is gonna be -5/-11 on Thursday - Canyon should be in big time!

Just imagine what going from 5,100 to 28,500 feels like

I dare you to read this without laughing your ass off

In other news the age group with the fastest increase in HIV+ status is over 55's.

I'd fix his "did you way" typo myself

Climb: Box Canyon-Happy Harvester Date of Climb: 12/4/2005 Trip Report: This was a last minute change of plan, after posting yesterday about Sumallo Bluffs we ended up deciding a WI4 for first lead of the year might be a bit much so went to Box Canyon instead, up the Coquihalla. Box Canyon is a cool place with lots of boulders and slide alders and devils club. It made me happy and I thought of sunshine and bunnies and candy and rainbows and stuff. I only wished Mike Layton was there so I could give him a big warm hug! Steve in the alders. Eventually we found some ice! This is the Festering Wall. It was Festering, so we backed off and climbed a pitch or so of Happy Harvester instead. Thin WI3, 13cms screws just went in in the thickest blobs. Not really all that impressive compared to the nearby routes though. Happy Harvester is the red line The third pitch of HH was formed up but the second wasn't so we rapped off and decided to bail as it was around 2:15. This time we found a better route out avoiding much of the alder, bush, boulders and postholing, so it went a lot faster and we were back at the car before dusk. Grim Reaper across the valley Upcanyon to Chrysalis area and beyond Rigor Mortis area. In short most of the ice in the canyon is still a few days away from forming up but there is climbable ice there right now, and there is now a beaten path in too. Ignore all footprints meandering off to the north as they lead to vegetative dead ends. Gear Notes: Stubbies Should have had machete, chainsaw, Agent Orange etc. Approach Notes: Not enough snow yet to snowshoe or ski, too much snow for easy hiking, you WILL posthole.

What is really sad is that men reach their sexual and reproductive peak at 18 and women at 33. Hello cougars!

I got some down my neck while ice climbing

Yeah man, go to Hyalite, ighnore those freezing temps locally More ice for us

Beckjord

You know that on those winter days when you are toying around on the slopes on your silly one or two planks you could be ICE CLIMBING right Or snowshoeing. Snowshoeing is fucking extreme.

Anyways everyone knows that the Bigfoot is a transdimensional, shapechanging type of creature, not some grubby terrestrial primate!

Good to hear there was no fatality, hope your partner recovers, Fox. Was it a cc.commer? Somebody specific we can focus the good vibes on? I understand you may not be able to release a name yet if kin have not been notified. Hopin' for a speedy recovery.

Can you bivi in them?

Doesn't exactly help the credibility, does it? I looked on Topozone and there are two Silver Star Mountains in WA http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=45.74806&lon=-122.23778 This is the 4390' one.

Mousetrap and Better Mousetrap - needs a few more days to form up. About 60% ice and 40% water at the moment. Sumallo Bluffs - Landmark Gully on the left, Buszowski/Kippan on the right. Hoping to try climbing this tomorrow. Might be too thin at the crux, we'll see. Detail of unclimbed and unformed ice above the B/K. Maybe a good candidate for bolted mixed route? Crunchy Frog - looking a bit unformed at the crux pillar but I'm sure you could climb it if you're a tough guy unlike me. Other routes - no photos - Anthrax Ripple - couldn't see much ice but maybe I was looking in the wrong gully. The Mess routes - looked mostly in. Medusa, Jet Lag etc. - similar to Mousetrap, mostly forming but not too attractive as leads yet. Jarvis Bluffs - a bunch of icicles but even if you were a shit-hot mixed climber these aren't climbable yet IMHO. Ditto all the unclimbed ice near the Sowaqua exit. Deneau Falls - lots of snow, some ice, running water visible Tailwind - photo was horribly bad or I would post it. Thin ice. Probably not climbable as an ice route BUT if you are a good climber and brought a lot of rock gear and Spectres you might very well be able to climb this as a mixed route since it follows a corner system with good cracks and turf. Sorry for huge photos. Hopefully I don't show up to the B/K tomorrow to find 5 parties have beaten me to the ice. The creek crossing to Sumallo Bluffs looked as bad as normal - no log jams have magically formed. I'm planning to cross using hip waders tomorrow....

wiggle on the bottom wiggle on the top wiggle in the middle and laugh a lot cause you're living in a wiggly world now

Sometimes they make multiple bails for the same crampon - and you need the right one. The parts department at the MEC warranty desk, for instance, can fit you with the right one. I suggest taking your boots and crampons to wherever you bought the crampons and asking for some help.

yeah, send us some of that!

Ice Climbing - the reason for the season

TOOL SWINGING is what you should have been training FOR